[PSP] PSP Discussion. Hay guys I just got one for Crisis Core, can u help me how 2 hax pls?

As far as I know, there's no option for that. If there is and you find it, let me know.

What I do is just open up the UMD slot when it starts up. But the thing is, I rarely shut the PSP down all the way; I find putting into standby or whatever mode [just flicking the power switch instead of holding it in] just as good.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Without a custom Firmware installed, you can't do much outside of Sony's restrictions. Which are exactly what you see in the PSP's XMB: Music, Videos, and UMD games/movies. And the wireless browser and internet features [which I don't use, so I don't know much about what they are or what they do, other than browse the internet.]

Music is fairly simple to get set up with. Pop in a Memory Stick and connect via USB. Create the folder ms0:\PSP\MUSIC [where 'ms0' is the Memory Stick's root folder], and stick your MP3 and WMA [if you have WMA enabled from the system menu] into that folder, and you're set to go. You can arrange them in album folders if you want, too.

Videos are a little more complicated, because they have to be in a specific format. I'm not sure of the specifications myself, but as far as I know, the format they've chosen is MP4 something-or-other. If I really want to watch movies on my PSP, I convert and transfer them over using PSPvideo9. It'll convert your videos for you, and copy them to the proper folder on your Memory Stick. [The file naming conventions and location on the Memory Stick are pretty confusing too, I just let the program do it for me. Check out the Memory Stick after copying if you're curious.]

If you DO have CFW installed, however, you can do a lot more. I don't really use homebrew or emulators, but there's programs out there for emulation [similar to ZSNES] for SNES, GBA, N64, and others. MAME is another gaming platform, for the record. I think.

Built in to the firmware itself though, is the PS1 emulation system. By converting a Playstation ISO to the PSP EBOOT format [using a program like PSX2PSP, and sticking them in ms0:\PSP\GAME\[game title] will let you load up the games from the XMB. Similarly, PSP ISO files can be stuck in ms0:\ISO and loaded from the XMB. Personally, that's my favourite feature.

Sorry for the long-winded post, but there's a lot of info to put out there. I'm probably missing a bunch too.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I've had zero issues running PS1 games on my PSP. In my experience, they all run great. The only 'issue' I've seen [which isn't really significant] is that in Final Fantasy VII-IX, the 'enter battle swoosh' either doesn't show, or looks a little bugged. The game still plays and loads just fine, though.

As for N64, I tried it a while back, and it was pretty bad. Apparently it's much improved now, so I might give it a try again. Maybe I was just using bad ROMs, though. Who knows.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

^ Aside from that small fact, though, I think any firmware [PSP is region-free] can be downgraded now using the Pandora methods. Then you can install your CFW and play away.

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To be honest, I've had custom firmware installed on my PSP since like... 2.50 or something. I thought the Pandora Battery method was capable of downgrading any firmware that's out there down to 1.50, but then again I haven't needed to use said method before.

As far as I know, there's also a 1.50 kernel addon for most of the newer firmware releases, but I've never used them either, mostly because I don't really run homebrew; just PSX emulation. [Which, by the way, seems to work just fine without any addons on my 4.01 M33-2 version.]

[edit] I totally forgot about game recommendations. Crisis Core was okay [though I haven't finished it], and I've been downloading a bunch of other games but haven't tried them out yet. Code Lyoko and Spectral Souls... I'll let you know when I try them out. Other than that, if you're looking for RPGs, I enjoyed Wild Arms xF, Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner is good if you like Pokemon [it's kind of a more mature anime-meets-Pokemon styled game], and Brave Story New Traveler for a traditional [and quite good-looking] jRPG. Hope that helps.

Oh, and if you can get your hands on Tales of Eternia [EU release only], I'd definitely recommend it.

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PSP Slim = Lite. I think they actually called it 'Slim & Lite'.

Anyway, the slim one originally shipped with FW 3.60, but the M33 releases are installable... just a little bit different I think. I have an original fat PSP, so I'm not exactly sure what's different--I just know that it can be done. Homebrew though is unstable at best I've heard, because the slim doesn't support the 1.50 kernel like the fat one does.

PlayStation Portable Slim and Lite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That might help a little, as well as Dark Alex's site for the M33 releases.

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The new M33 firmwares support Skype, and you should be able to use it regardless of if you update to the official or the M33 firmware.

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